Countly Community Edition
Self-hosted product analytics and engagement platform for mobile, web, desktop, and connected devices, with dashboards, crash reporting, push notifications, and privacy tools.
Countly Community Edition is a privacy-first analytics and customer engagement platform used to collect, analyze, and act on first-party data from mobile, web, desktop, and connected devices. It provides a modular server and dashboard designed for teams that want data ownership and flexible deployment.
Key Features
- Event, session, and view tracking with interactive dashboards and reporting
- Crash and error analytics for multiple platforms via Countly SDKs
- Engagement tools including push notifications, in-app ratings, and surveys/feedback
- Remote configuration to change app behavior and messaging without redeploying
- Alerts, scheduled email reports, and integrations via webhooks and APIs
- Data management tools to plan events/segmentations and improve data quality
- Privacy and compliance capabilities such as consent collection and data subject request handling
- Plugin-based architecture for extending and customizing the server and UI
Use Cases
- Product analytics for mobile and web apps with privacy and data ownership requirements
- Monitoring app stability and diagnosing crashes across supported client platforms
- Running targeted engagement campaigns (push, in-app prompts) driven by user behavior
Limitations and Considerations
- Some advanced capabilities and features are reserved for commercial Countly editions
- Operational requirements depend on the chosen deployment and data volume (database sizing, retention, and scaling planning)
Countly Community Edition fits teams looking for an extensible analytics stack that combines measurement and engagement in one platform. Its API-first and plugin-based design makes it suitable for integrating with existing systems while maintaining control over collected data.